People Had To Settle For Big Bucks

[PopBitch] Which embarrassing court case did the People have to settle for big bucks with A-list combatants when their lawyers discovered they got the story from phone hacking? Not surprisingly, they thought that sharing this with the court was probably unwise.

oooh oooh… Sienna Miller, they photographed her and Balthazar (sp?) Getty during their affair for an entire month. They probably found out about it by taping her calls. AND they did settle the harassment claim by paying her damages & court costs.

With regards to Murdoch-gate, the Sienna aspect is old news…her insistence that something was “off” contributed to the phone hacking being established in the first place. There would surely be more juicier cases due to come out…Sienna & Getty are hardly newsworthy these days. Posh n Becks? Tom Cruise? Gwyneth & Coldplay man?

… It’s not People magazine. It’s a term for the prosecution. PopBitch is a British gossip site. It makes sense that they’d have to settle if they got evidence from phone-hacking, which is obviously a big no-no.

News of the World first published that story not People. But, since I don’t know any other UK A-list couple, I agree this is probably the Beckhams. Does anyone remember some trashy story People published about them?

Popbitch is a UK site and the People here is NOT People magazine. It’s the Sunday People, a UK tabloid Sunday paper. And it’s not owned by Murdoch either – this is a rival owned by Mirror Group, his UK rivals. The only case I can find where the People settled was with Peter Andre and Katie Price (Jordan).Not sure A list is quite the right description for them but they are both very famous here (which makes me ashamed of my country!)

I don’t know for sure what the blind is referring to specifically (that’s why it’s a blind), but for clarity, “the People” usually stands for the prosecution or the state, as in “the People vs. So-and-So”.

Unless the author of the blind is playing with words, I think in this case it means the prosecution is having to settle with the celebrity plaintiffs because the evidence was procured by phone hacking.

There’s not much more that can be elaborated tbh, it was during the Camillagate phone call (back in 1992 iirc) where Prince Charles told Camilla he wanted to be reincarnated as her tampon… for reasons I really hope I don’t need to explain.

i think as this is from popbitch, its definitely about the sunday people, a tabloid newspaper over here. but i don’t know what it is – popbitch might class katie and peter as a list meaning over here, so that could be a good guess!

I don’t know why, exactly, but “Tom Cruise Is Gay” popped into my head. Maybe in the same way that every time you see a McDonalds you inevitably think of those damn apple pies you burned yourself on when you were a kid. But I digress..

In this situation the celebrity the blind is referring to _is_ the plaintiff. “The People” would only ever be used to refer to the plaintiff. Since the celebrity and the entity settling with them out of court can’t both be the plaintiff, it’s quite clear that the blind is not using “the People” in the legal sense.

The clue implies People magazine. The word is deliberatly capialized. It has nothing to do with the “prosecution”. The prosecution would indicate a criminal act. A civil suit wouldn’t involve a proscecutor.

We’re looking for a story done in People magazine, which may have later been retracted.

The People is a UK Sunday newspaper, similar to the News of the World (RIP). As people have pointed out, in the UK prosecutions are never done “by the people” but in the name of the Crown (eg R (Regina) v…).
With regard to this particular case a number of high-profile people have been made aware they were the victims of phone-hacking inc Sienna Miller, Wayne Rooney and Cat Deeley.

Good point – the blind is seemingly about a story that was actually printed in the People newspaper, which was challenged after the fact by the A list combatants. Like Max Mosley and the News of the World.

Guess wise, who knows. Chances are it’s a client of Max Clifford though.